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One vote for blowing the dam.

Funny. Haaretz.com doesn't have it.

Exit 32 has all of two or three easy trad routes. Exit 38 has 3 easy trad routes at The Bobs on Mt. Washington. The best of these is Ultramegacrack, 5.8, at Slumbersome Ridge. Bring a modest rack. There is another one that wants a larger cam.

Nicely done!

So which rope manufacturer will be the first to incorporate a pH-sensitive dye into the cover of their ropes. Get acid (or alkali) on your rope and it would turn red. Hey I should patent that idea!

I bow down to Mr. Fox, the Cleverer guy.

Did you know that you could actually die from tichinosis? It's a horrible way to die.

Uh, Bill, if you did, it was on one of those other boards.

So he signs the register on the 27th and by the 29th there is five inches of snow on the ground. That's unfortunate timing for the weather.

It WOULD be nice, but a billion $ here, a billion $ there, pretty soon you're talking about some real money.

Don't know about Index, but Three O'Clock Rock has some great huckleberries right now. Lot's and lots of ripe ones.

That was the first thing my daughter said when I told her the story.

But don't eat the liver or you could get Vitamin A poisoning.

For those of you too lazy to read the report, the conclusion was that the rope was weakened by sulfuric acid (battery acid). They don't know how the acid came in contact with the rope, but it may have been spilled on a parking lot surface (from a car) and picked up when the rope was set down on it. The moral of the story is keep your ropes clean and watch where you put them. Keeping them in a rope bag is an excellent idea for many reasons.

This is the Greg we met at Exit 32! Only a few short months ago he was a gym climber. What an awesome mentor to have!

What sort of stripper? Wax stripper?

That's just random shite.

Nobody wants to talk about Bush. It's too depressing.

There are two rules to this thread. 1) A reply must address in some way a point in the previous post. 2) The reply must bring up a new point that is guaranteed to cause the thread to drift. The Totally Random Stuff in each post thing has been done already. We're going for smooth drift here.

Perfectly acceptable in Spray.

Well...Hood is near Portland, isn't it?

The latter, of course. Think about the meaning of the phrase- to stay within bounds.

Don't you just love our English language? Only in this phrase is the word used to mean "deserves". Anywhere else, it means "to abandon".

The word police just PM'd me to say that "just deserts" is spelled with one s.

That's because Just Desserts is easy. It's fun as hell. I have to go and get the redpoint on Won't Get Fooled Again.